DNS and SQL

[Kevin Darcy]

Jason Burton wrote:

>Anyone know of a way to make Win2k DNS server or DNS service in general ODBC
>or data driven rather than zone file based?
>
Well, BIND has traditionally loaded its zone data from files, but there 
are commercial products built on top of BIND (Lucent's QIP and Nortel's 
NetID, for instance), that use a RDBMS backend instead. With BIND 9, 
there are hooks that allow one to use any database one wishes as a 
backend, assuming it meets certain requirements.

For ad-hoc querying, I would think the resolver library interface is 
much more lightweight than ODBC etc.

                                                                        
                                                - Kevin